Wrongdoing in New York but not with Benghazi.

And now this from the news you will never hear on FOX VIEWS department:




"The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.


The panel voted Thursday to declassify the report, the result of two years of investigation by the committee. U.S. intelligence agencies will have to approve making the report public.


Thompson said the report "confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given."


That conflicts with accusations of administration wrongdoing voiced by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County), whose House Government Oversight and Reform Committee has held hearings on the Benghazi attack."


Oh my! What is the "car thief" going to do now? He wasted millions of dollars on his investigation witch-hunt to score political brownie points, and, as it turns out, he hid the truth from the country for over a year.




He went from stealing cars to stealing from the American people.




Now on to New York, where the videotaped chokehold killing of Eric Garner has spurred a new debate about police brutality and police misconduct.




The killing has been ruled a homicide by the New York City Medical Examiner's office, and the minority residence of the country's largest city are demanding justice.




I would like to say that justice will be forthcoming, but sadly, I am not that optimistic. Already we are learning that the citizen who bravely filmed the tragic incident has been arrested. (Mr. Orta, it might be time to leave New York)




Now, to add insult to death, the police union in New York has declared that the officer who murdered Mr. Garner was following proper police practices, and that the ME report was politically motivated. I have to give it to you boys in blue; you sure know how to get each other's back no matter what.




But this is the environment in which New Yorkers are seeking justice. Good luck with that.




Finally, did you hear the one about some dude who was trying to take a selfie with his gun and shot himself to death?  That's crazy, right? 




Well, you know what's really crazy?  Here in this country the NRA is advocating letting blind people own guns. Yep. As if it's not bad enough that children get their hands on guns with tragic results. Now we have to add blind people to the mix.




I bet Darrell Issa is a card carrying member of the NRA. They both deserve each other.

The Benghazi lie.

 “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” 
~  Adolf Hitler ~

"It is an unfortunate human trait to look for some kind of moral wrong or legal malfeasance in specific events to incite general public outrage either to benefit someone or to cast aspersion on someone else. Shortly after Republicans won a House majority in the 2010 midterm elections a corrupt Republican, Darrell Issa, promised his only job as chairman of the House Oversight Committee was to have “seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks” investigating the Obama Administration when the 112^th Congress began. Issa was desperate to find a scandal to take down President Obama and has investigated everything from the 2009 federal stimulus program to fabricating President Obama’s part in the scandalous Republican government shutdown two months ago.

Issa has wasted taxpayer time and money for three years looking for Obama Administration scandals he subsequently never found, including the tragic deaths of 4 American diplomats in Benghazi Libya on September 11 2012. Issa’s scandalous investigations aside, it was revealed yesterday that an extensive investigation into the attack on the diplomatic outpost that claimed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three diplomats’ lives found no involvement of al-Qaeda or other international terrorists groups whatsoever like Republicans have claimed for over a year. Instead, the attack was precipitated by, as first reported, extremist Christians in the United States.

A lengthy and comprehensive New York Times investigation informed what Republicans are desperate to keep under wraps because it revealed the Benghazi attack was “accelerated in part by anger at a U.S.-made video denigrating Islam.” The report parroted what any American with half-a-mind has known since Republicans began their relentless propaganda campaign that the Obama administration attempted to cover up al-Qaeda’s alleged role in the attack. According to the chairman of the House Intelligent Committee, Republican Mike Rogers, who kept the al-Qaeda meme alive last month on Fox News, “It was very clear to the individuals on the ground that this was an al-Qaeda-led event.”

However, according to the Times, “The only intelligence connecting Al Qaeda to the attack was an intercepted phone call that night from a participant in the first wave of the attack to a friend in another African country who had ties to members of Al Qaeda. But when the friend heard the attacker’s boasts, he sounded astonished and had no prior knowledge of the assault.” The report said militants surveyed the U.S. compound at least 12 hours before the assault started, but “the violence also had spontaneous elements fueled in large part by anger at the (anti-Islam) video that motivated the initial attack.” It is important to note that the video, titled “Innocence of Muslims,” was made by an American and “had also prompted protests for hours the day before at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.”

The report continued that “Dozens of people (in Benghazi) joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters.” According to a suspect who denied participating in the attack, “the video insulting the Prophet Mohammed might well have justified the killing of four Americans.”

Still, Congressional Republicans continue to assert that Stevens and three diplomats died in a carefully planned assault by al-Qaeda because they sought to undermine President Obama’s claim that al-Qaeda was decimated after killing its leadership including Osama bin Laden. Republicans assailed Susan E. Rice for announcing that based on early intelligence reports; the attacks were inspired by “spontaneous street protests that got out of hand as a result of the video denigrating the prophet Mohammed.” Susan Rice was mercilessly condemned by leading Republicans for allegedly lying about the attacks that led her to withdraw her name from consideration as President Obama’s Secretary of State." [More]

I think blaming American Christians for the attacks- like the author of the article- is a bridge too far, but clearly republicans went on a fishing expedition and there was nothing in the lake.

They should have quit while they were ahead.

And while they focus on a tragedy thousands of miles away in a land known for tragedies, children are being accidentally killed here at home by weapons of destruction that are made too easily available because they choose to turn a blind eye to the obvious.

The abusers.

There are some truly sick people in the world. No, not Darrell Issa and the wingnuts in congress; I will get to them in a minute.

I am referring to these guys:

"Two Alabama men kept a 9-year-old boy captive for months as they sexually tortured him and filmed it as part of a larger child porn ring, prosecutors in Huntsville say in a disturbing case.

So disturbing were the more than 100 photographs police found that officers could not even positively identify the boy because they could not bear to look, cops said in court on Monday...'

Oh, and it gets worse: One of the men was the boy's father. [Source]

As someone who has done criminal defense work, I have seen and heard of some pretty disgusting crimes in my life. But, sadly, this one might just take the cake. *shaking head*

Now to another disgusting individual. This one doesn't abuse children, but rather, he abuses his power.

I am speaking about one Mr. Darrell Issa. This scumbag is holding oversight hearings for "navigators" who worked on the ACA roll- out.

OK, unless you live on another planet you know that the ACA roll- out has been a disaster. But why is there a congressional investigation?

"The navigators program, which oversees a staff that handles Obamacare applications one-on-one, has come under fire from Issa and other Republicans for inadequately vetting and training navigators, as well as for incidents in which navigators allegedly told applicants to misrepresent personal information to receive lower premiums or qualify for a subsidy. A Fox News clip showing two navigators hired in Irving, TX, allegedly misleading an applicant was played during the hearing; Farris said the two navigators had been disciplined.

In a competing op-ed in the Dallas Morning News yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defended the program." [Source]

This would be funny if it wasn't so dad. Darell Issa, a car thief (please see the above pic supplied to me by my twitter fam, Zirgar), sitting on his high horse and judging a bunch of poor government workers for doing their job.

"During House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s field-hearing road tour Monday afternoon, he told an official overseeing the Affordable Care Act’s implementation in Texas that “he needed to watch more Fox News.”

I am quite sure that he (Mr. Issa) watches a lot of "FOX News." The two of them deserve each other.

Darrell is hurting the republican brand.

I know republicans would never take advice from me, but just this once try to listen: Lose Darrell Issa (he of the car fetish)as your face of these investigations into the IRS.

Mr. Issa is a liar and a fraud, and the longer you keep him front and center is the more you risk the chance of serious embarrassment and further erosion of your popularity as a political party.

He has been all over our television of late declaring that there is a connection to these scandals and the White House when it turns out that he actually knows better.

Fortunately someone on his committee is willing to come forward to expose him.

"Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings appeared on Candy Crowley’s State of the Union Sunday morning with what he believed was testimony refuting any link between the White House and the group of IRS officials who targeted conservative groups over the past two years, and called on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to release full transcripts of the investigation.

In the transcript quoted by CNN, an IRS official says he does not believe that the order to scrutinize tea party groups was politically motivated, nor did it come from above.

“This man was the manager of the Cincinnati group that reviewed the exemption process,” Cummings said. “Listen up now. He was a twenty-one year veteran of the IRS. He described himself as a conservative Republican. He is a conservative Republican working for the IRS. I think this interview and these statements go a long way toward showing that the White House was not involved in this.”

“This conservatve, twenty-one year veteran of the IRS,” Cummings continued, “is the same one who sent the initial case, the tea party case, up to the Washington technical office. It had not been requested by the Washington techincal office of the IRS.”

As Crowley pointed out, Cummings appearance was strangely reminiscent of Issa’s appearance on her show exactly one week before, when Issa used excerpts of his investigation’s transcripts to make his case that orders to scrutinize tea party groups had come from Washington. Crowley eviscerated his claim and faulted him for cherry-picking quotes. Cummings now arrived with excerpts of his own to make the opposite case.

Crowley asked Cummings if the full transcript of the investigation would ever be released.

“I want those transcripts to be released,” Cummings said. “But he’s the chairman of the committee. We’re not in power. Now, if he does not release them I will.”

“Can we get some sort of transcript?” Crowley asked.

“I’ll release them by the end of the week,” Cummings said." [Source]

I can't wait.

Finally, I really wish that that NRA would spend more of those long dollars that they have on things like gun safety and responsible gun ownership instead of buying off politricksters in Washington.

Now comes yet another case of a child who got hold of a firearm with tragic results.

This particular child is four, and he found a gun in his living room and used it to shoot and kill his 35 year old father.

But wait, there is even more irony to this story: The boy's father was a former Army special forces veteran who served in Iraq.

Go figure. You survive a tour of duty in Iraq only to be killed by your four year old son who found a gun just sitting around in the living room.

Yes America, you have a right to bear arms, but not to be stupid.

*Pic from Crooksandliars.com

Darrell's cars, and Will's bomb.

After reading the following post, I have come to the conclusion that maybe Darrell Issa is not  a car thief after all.

"One fascinating side-drama of Rep. Darrell Issa‘s current conflict with the White House over the IRS investigation is the broadside launched by former White House senior adviser David Plouffe, who tweeted, of Issa, “Strong words from Mr Grand Theft Auto and suspected arsonist/insurance swindler. And loose ethically today.”

Plouffe was responding to Issa’s “paid liar” attack on Jay Carney, but his tweet might make people wonder how a guy gets elected to the U.S. Congress after being accused of car theft… three times. Here’s how.

It should be noted that David Plouffe is not a journalist, but if he were, his tweet would be considered a massive breach (or not), because it implies guilt where it hasn’t been established. Darrell Issa was never convicted of auto theft, or any of the other things Plouffe tweeted about, but it is fascinating that, in an age where an errant scream can sink your electoral chances, a candidate could survive three accusations of auto theft, including two indictments.
The first alleged theft occurred in 1971, and did not result in an arrest or charges. Here’s what First Sergeant (Ret.) Jay Bergey told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1998:

“That kid stole my car out of the parking lot and took it to Cleveland, and I knew he did it,” said retired 1st Sgt. Jay Bergey, who served with Issa in 1971 on the 145th Ordnance Detail, an Army bomb squad stationed near Pittsburgh. 

“I confronted Issa. . .. . I got in his face and threatened to kill him, and magically my car reappeared the next day, abandoned on the turnpike,” the retired soldier said in a phone interview from his home in Pennsylvania. 

…According to Sgt. Bergey, the alleged auto theft occurred shortly before Christmas in 1971. 

Bergey said he had been sent on short notice to eastern Pennsylvania to dispose of ammunition. When he returned the next day, he said, the car was missing. 

Bergey said only a few soldiers knew of his overnight assignment. He said he concluded that Issa had stolen the car, driven it 150 miles to Cleveland and then returned to the barracks.

At the time a 15-year veteran who had served in Vietnam, Bergey said he confronted the teenage soldier. 

“I told him I was going to kill him if I didn’t get my car back,” Bergey said. He said Issa denied stealing the car, but soon after, the car was found abandoned less than a mile away.

That’s pretty thin, but Bergey went on to tell the paper that Issa’s mother “basically admitted that my car had been in Cleveland,” and that she told him “Issa had claimed to have purchased the vehicle,” according to the paper.
When Issa was asked about Sgt. Bergey’s allegation in 2011, he went on the attack, telling The New Yorker‘s Ryan Lizza “I can’t believe (Sgt. Bergey) ended his career as a medium-rank sergeant with an alcohol problem,” and added, “Did I steal his or anyone’s car? No. Did I have anything to do with it and do I know whether somebody else stole it or he simply left it in a drunken stupor? I’d have to go check. I didn’t.”

Issa’s second auto theft allegation happened in 1972, and did result in an arrest and charges, which were later dropped:

On March 15, 1972, three months after Issa allegedly stole Jay Bergey’s car and one month after he left the Army for the first time, Ohio police arrested Issa and his older brother, William, and charged them with stealing a red Maserati from a Cleveland showroom. The judge eventually dismissed the case. 

…The incident involving the Maserati was a case of mistaken identity, he said. “By the time I get home in ’72, my brother has been incarcerated,” he said. “Cleveland Heights is a pretty small town. He was arrested and sent off to juvenile detention for a year and now he’s back on the street, and the police stop us. We’re about a thousand feet away, but walking in a direction toward this car. And they put two and two together: ‘Hey, car sitting in the middle of the road and two guys walking toward it and one of them’—Billy had never been arrested for car theft, but he’d been arrested for other thefts. Eventually, they put together the, quote, eyewitness with us and we don’t match and the case is dismissed.”

That same year, Issa ran into trouble in another car that wasn’t his, this time for having a gun in his glove compartment. The car, and the gun, were his brother’s, and Issa claimed he didn’t know the gun was in there, and that there were no bullets. However, Lizza reported, the police report said that “there was a loaded clip and a box of ammo, and that Issa told the police that he was allowed to carry the gun and that he needed to protect his car.”
Taking Issa at his word (and why wouldn’t you?), you would think that, after his brother’s past had just gotten him arrested, Issa would be a little more careful about borrowing his car, or anything, from him. Apparently, that lesson didn’t sink in, as Darrell would go on to be arrested again, for something he says his brother did:

According to court records, on December 28, 1979, William Issa arrived at Smythe European Motors, in San Jose, and offered to sell Darrell’s car, a red 1976 Mercedes sedan. William was carrying an Ohio driver’s license with his brother’s name on it and the dealer gave William a check for sixteen thousand dollars, which he immediately cashed. Soon afterward, Darrell reported the car stolen from the Monterey airport. He later told the police that he had left the title in the trunk.

 The brothers had been together in Cleveland for Christmas, and, after Darrell gave a series of conflicting statements about his brother and whether he himself had recently obtained a second driver’s license, the investigator in the case became suspicious that the two men had conspired to fraudulently sell Darrell’s car and then collect the insurance money.

The brothers were indicted for grand theft. Darrell argued that he had no knowledge of William’s activities; William claimed that his brother had authorized him to sell the car, and he produced a document dated a few weeks before the robbery that gave him power of attorney over his brother’s affairs. On February 15th, with the investigation ongoing, Darrell returned to the San Jose dealership and repurchased his car, for seventeen thousand dollars. In August, 1980, the prosecution dropped the case. Darrell insisted that he was a victim, not a criminal. William had produced evidence that he had the legal authority to sell the car, and the injured party was reimbursed.

I’ve heard of “3 strikes” laws, but in Issa’s case, it seems he’s racked up three balls, each of which earned him a walk.

The “car thief” appellation gets thrown at Issa frequently by opponents, but given that these allegations are all smoke, news consumers should take all of the facts into consideration, and not just go with what their gut tells them." [Source]

I have had a few clients like Mr. Issa in my time. The poor guy just always seems to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

I am sure that he is hoping that his fishing expedition  investigation to get something on his Oness will not be more of the same.

Finally, you all know I can chase the Big R with the best of them, and that when I see racism I am going to call it out. But....come on now....

"This past weekend was a huge movie weekend, with “Now You See Me,” “Fast and Furious 6,”  and “After Earth,” vying to become blockbuster king. On Monday, the numbers rolled in, and critics of “After Earth” seemingly rejoiced at Will Smith and son Jaden‘s “dismal showing” at the box office. “After Earth” came in third, garnering only $27 million, compared with “Fast and Furious 6′s first place landing and $34.54 million profit. But whether you are a professional critic or pedestrian movie-goer alike, was “After Earth’s s0-called weak showing a result of poor acting and plot as some profess, or does Hollywood and some Americans have a problem with a star such as Will having the audacity to think that more than one Black actor can live in the limelight at his or her own choosing?" [Source] 

I love my fam over at News One, and Will  Smith and M. Night Shyamalan are my Philly home boys, but let's keep it real; people didn't go to see the movie because they thought that it was a bad movie, not because of racism.

M. Night hasn't made a good movie since The Sixth Sense, and sorry Will, but you need a hit. You probably should have taken the Django Unchained role.

Anyway, Will Smith is not the type of actor of color that white folks will stay away from because of his race. White folks love Will Smith. Unfortunately for Will, though, they don't like a bad movie. 

Guess who is coming to the McCain's dinner. And what's in Mr. Issa's closet?

I suspect that Senator John McCain will be easing up a bit on all the Obama hateration from here on out.

The thought of having a bi-racial grandchild like the chosen one can soften even the most hardened wingnuts and make them consider their place in this melting pot we all call home.(Well, most of them. Some are beyond help)

Of course, as is to be expected, it's not all kumbaya moments for Jack McCain and his blushing bride.

"Now this is sad.

On what should be a joyous occasion, Sen. John McCain and his family have to deal with some ignorance.

Sen. McCain happily posted a shot of his 27-year-old son Jack McCain‘s marriage to 29-year-old Bay Area native Renee Swift — they met in Guam while serving in the Air Force Reserves — on his Facebook page. Immediately, Facebookers started posting messages of “congrats!” underneath the picture and photo album. But then the ignorance started.

Commentors brought up Obama, the race of his new daughter-in-law and political leanings under the comment section.

One commenter, Diann Daily, wrote: “No wonder McCain has crawled into bed with Obama…His son married a black girl! McCain is a RINO and a TRAITOR! Eeeewwwwwwwww…..”

And others followed suit, with many calling him a “traitor.”

Then there are comments like these, from George Dwyer, who wrote “Did someone seriously post about this dude marrying a black chick like it was a bad thing? What dimension are you living in? Is it possible to be that ignorant in the year 2013?”

Indeed. The happy couple will honeymoon in Africa before returning to Guam." [Source]

Speaking of wingnuts, one in particular has been making some news over the past few days.

In my country we have a saying that goes like this: "Tief no love fi si tief wid long bag."

I am reminded of Darrell Issa, the face of the republicans when it comes to these manufactured scandals in Washington, when I hear that proverb.

Mr. Issa actually chose to go on national television on Sunday and call the White House spokesperson a "paid liar".

“The administration is still, their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind, he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this local rogue,” Issa said." [Source]

Now now Mr.Issa, that wasn't very nice. When you say mean things like that you open up yourself for others to look into your closet.

I am not going to say that Mr. Issa is indeed guilty of auto theft, arson, carrying a concealed weapon, and insurance fraud, because, from what I have read, the man was charged but never convicted of these things.

The person actually making the charges via twitter is a former member of president Obama's "inner circle", David Plouffe.

"Unlike Issa's rhetorical jabs, Plouffe's brush-back pitch at least has the benefit of accuracy. As we discussed a few weeks ago, Issa, the man Republicans have tasked with leading investigations into alleged administration misdeeds, really has spent a fair amount of his adult life as a suspected criminal. This Ryan Lizza piece in the New Yorker from a couple of years ago remains relevant.

"Many politicians have committed indiscretions in earlier years: maybe they had an affair or hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny. Issa, it turned out, had, among other things, been indicted for stealing a car, arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, and accused by former associates of burning down a building."

This is generally one of those truths the political world knows, but chooses not to talk about. It's not a secret -- Issa's background is the subject of insider jokes and private chatter -- but it's considered impolite to broach the subject publicly.

Which makes Plouffe's rhetorical shot all the more interesting.

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For the record, Lizza's report on Issa highlighted one run-in with the law after another, including arrests and indictments. There are also many suspected crimes -- he's accused of deliberately burning down a building and threatening a former employee with a gun -- which did not lead to formal charges, but which nevertheless cast the congressman in a less-than-flattering light.

The New Yorker report also noted an incident in which Issa was in a car accident with a woman who needed to be hospitalized. He drove away before the police could arrive because, as he told the person he hit, he didn't have time to wait. Issa didn't face charges, but he was sued over the matter, and agreed to an out-of-court settlement." [Source]

Game on Mr. Issa. Now it's your turn to go after that mean Plouffe fellow for defamation. Just remember, the truth is a pretty good defense in these types of cases.

*Issa pic courtesy of litbrit.blogspot.com 

Scoring political points by any means necessary.

Americans have been talking a lot about a place called Benghazi of late. Most Americans never heard of Benghazi prior to September 11. If you said Benghazi to the average American prior to September 11, he or she would have thought you were talking about a restaurant chain.

Anyway, republicans are certainly glad for Benghazi. Their candidate for president couldn't wait to get on television and politicize the tragic attack on the US consulate in that city. To him, it was a political opportunity, not a national tragedy. Not to be outdone, republicans in congress have been going down that same inglorious path.

 "The U.S. Senate's number two Democrat and others in his party criticized a Republican House of Representatives committee chairman on Sunday for releasing government documents related to last month's violent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.

Senator Richard Durbin charged that Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, had politicized the Benghazi events during a presidential election campaign, in particular by releasing sensitive papers with the names of Libyans who have worked with the United States.

"This idea of Chairman Issa, that he's going to dump the names in public of Libyans who are risking their lives to support America and keep us safe in an effort to get a political toehold in this election is unconscionable. It is unacceptable," Durbin, the Senate's Democratic whip, told "Fox News Sunday."David Axelrod, a campaign adviser to President Barack Obama, also blasted Issa, charging it was "disgraceful" that he had released government papers "to score political points in the final weeks before an election."

Issa released 166 pages of unclassified memos, diplomatic cables and other government documents related to the Benghazi mission on Friday as part of his committee's investigation of the attack in the eastern Libyan city. The papers were not classified, but some were diplomatic communications marked "sensitive." [Source]

Oh my! The things we do for power here in America.

Finally, you Negroes are going to have to stop resorting to taking out a bunch of people -like those other folks- when things don't go your way.

Just today some Negro in Wisconsin took out a bunch of people and then himself after having what is being described as "domestic problems". Last Thursday some lunatic went to his "estranged" girlfriend's place of employment and shot her before killing three other people.

Seriously folks, domestic violence is not something to be taken lightly. Every woman out there should watch for all the red flags when they hook up with "Mr. Right." And fellows, if you find yourself obsessing over someone, you might need to get help. Call your pastor, grab a stiff drink, or call one of your boys to go and hang out with.

The sequel.

I am not a big fan of movie sequels, give me the original every time. With a few exceptions, (the Bourne franchise comes to mind) the sequel never quite lives up to the original. Big Momma’s House 2? Beverly Hills Cop 11?The Hangover Part 11? Please!

So anyway, now we have “Fast and Furious” playing out in Washington, and if you haven’t been paying attention, you might not realize that this too is a sequel. Yes, let’s call this one 2 Fast 2 furious.

The original came under our friend W, and, as is the case with most originals, I am guessing that it was better than the sequel as well.

"One after the other, Republicans on the panel waved the bloody shirt. “Here’s the proof!” hollered Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.), claiming he had evidence that President Obama knew about a botched federal program that contributed to Terry’s death. Gowdy’s proof: that Obama cited executive privilege in denying the committee all the documents it sought. “If he’s not part of it, then he’s got no business asserting executive privilege,” Gowdy concluded.

Terry’s death is indeed a scandal, part of the “Fast and Furious” operation in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives lost track of 2,000 guns it was planning to trace on their way to Mexican drug cartels; two of those firearms were found near Terry’s body. After that, the Justice Department shut down the program (which followed similar “gun-walking” operations during the George W. Bush administration), fired or reassigned several people who ran the program out of ATF’s Phoenix office, requested an inspector-general investigation and handed over about 7,600 pages of records to Issa’s committee." [Source]

Wait, what was that Mr.Milbank? We have actually seen this movie before? Yes, I thought it looked familiar.

I wonder why this one is such a hit with republicans and the original was such a dud? Hmmmm, I am guessing that they didn't like the first director.

"Republicans didn’t have much on Holder — it’s one of those perennial disputes about how much the executive branch needs to divulge to the legislature — so they did what sensible people usually do when they have an honest disagreement: They accused the attorney general of being an accessory to murder."

Or, maybe they just like a more dramatic script.